Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry. But is there an ultimate winner? What is Unreal?

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Evgeny Makarov, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Jakub Knapik, Art Director at CDPR Our Sniper Elite 4 Journey – Lessons in Porting AAA Action Games to the Nintendo Switch The Asura engine, entirely developed in-house by Rebellion, has allowed the independent developer/publisher the maximum creative and technical freedom.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The larger the team gets, the more effort and resources the studio spends on reducing build times. There are several different approaches I’ve seen studios take to optimize build time. This way, a character artist might need to build the character bucket but is fine with slightly out-of-date level or audio assets.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). It means that assets are pulled from disk on demand (loaded only at the time they are needed), rather than as a part of a larger stage.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 22, 2022

So off goes Brackeys to this link: Lazy Game Dev – No Game Left Behind And uses the coupon code LAZY … to claim a 20% discount on Lazy Game Dev that could help him build an AAA quality game… before the 9 hours are up… And — who knows? Maybe Lazy Game Dev could help you do the same.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

12 years ago, while working for the Chief Creative Director at Electronic Arts, I was part of an effort to evangelize microtransactions, in-game purchases, DLC, and other forms of incremental revenue across the EA game studios. If you’re telling me you wouldn’t play the game where you own your assets, I’m telling you you’re lying.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. . Unity has a reputation for being a complex game engine designed to help developers make AAA games. Read the Full Tutorial ?

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Customers building Unreal Engine games on AWS Learn how game studios combine advanced 3D game development technology with purpose-built global infrastructure capabilities to build, run, and grow their games. QXR Studios co-founder Graeme Devine noted, “It used to take 100+ person teams five years and $25M to deliver at this level.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

You’ll have more control over your game, some custom things are better and easier done with written code, and the main reason is if you want to get a job in a game studio, you need to know how to write code. If you want to get a job in a game studio, we recommend that you start with Unreal Engine and C++.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). For mobile, the greater synergy for Activision was actually through the launch of Call of Duty Mobile with external partner Tencent and their famous TiMi Studio.

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Game Designing

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A 3D animation rigger is a member of a visual effects team who helps to prepare 3D assets for animation. Once concept art has been created for a 3D character or asset, it will be the job of a 3D modeler to make the actual object that will be used by animators.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

To summarise it, failing to make and scale a high-quality RPG will likely doom a studio. To avoid this unnecessary scenario a studio should consider two elements: Trap 1: Watch out for over-extending your production costs. Just look at Hero Wars from a Playrix associated studio. Same Studio. More depth. Better graphics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Ni-Zhan was the local competitor to Crossfire and the first FPS developed by a then unknown internal Studio called TiMi.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is perhaps because successful assets are very expensive and it is cheaper for an existing 4X publisher to launch and scale new titles rather than to acquire and operate existing games that have already scaled. Access all previous predictions here. 5 Marketing excellence.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

Creative Assembly (CA) – a SEGA studio, Creative Assembly has been at the forefront of the strategy gaming genre for 22 years with its award-winning Total War franchise. In this session , KakaoGames explained how to maximize game server performance, how to architect MMORPGs on AWS, and why the company chose AWS. Learn more. Learn more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

You cannot want any of those traders who are after quick wins by flipping your game assets since it will only mean that your game is actually a ponzi scheme. Of course, how much you want to take as royalty depends on the asset type and community. One thing is for sure, none of this justifies eliminating creator royalties in games.

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